Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Easter rising 1916-2016

To celebrate the centenary of the easter rising this year I made a small refight around the post office, of course as a good catholic it had to be played during easter!

Played with Osprey's A world aflame

Both forces had two squads each with light machine guns, the brits also had a field gun with an artillery spotter, but they had to reduce the irish to a quarter of their original forces in order to win. The irish got Initiative 4 and morale 3 and the british 3 and 4.

The british repressors ready to quell the irish rebels

Behind the infantry line the commanding officer and the artillery spotter remain out of range

The irish adopted a loose formation to avoid the british cannon's onslaught

Just a small force in the front, if the brits want to get to the bulk of the rebel forces they'll have to come out of their barricades

First blood was for the irish

The british soon advanced, falling for the irish ruse, the rebels moved forwards and opened up killing most of the advanced troops

One sergeant was killed

One of the men perished at the hand of an infuriated irish housewife (event card)

After being repulsed by irish fire the brits had to lay down behind cover terrified

The british gun finally managed to kill someone, but the irish passed their 6+ morale roll

With the britsh on the backfoot the rebels now sallied forth

Their first shots missed the only major threat: the artillery spotter

But as more rifles got in range he was inevitabily doomed

One british squad was rallied by their sergeant

But the other fled and the british player conceded. An irish victory, despite the actual events.

My father pointed out that the superior irish initiative was unfair since most of the time they got to fire first. So if we play again, both sides'll get the same stats.